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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 15.04, 15.10 USN-2877-1 Critical: Oxide Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2016
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Essential updates addressing Oxide vulnerabilities for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 15.04, and 15.10 reinforce system security against potential threats.
Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.

Software Description:

- oxide-qt: Web browser engine library for Qt (QML plugin)

Details:

A bad cast was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a

specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to

cause a denial of service via renderer crash or execute arbitrary code

with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. (CVE-2016-1612)

An issue was discovered when initializing the UnacceleratedImageBufferSurface

class in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted

website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive

information. (CVE-2016-1614)

An issue was discovered with the CSP implementation in Blink. If a user

were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could

potentially exploit this to determine whether specific HSTS sites had been

visited by reading a CSP report. (CVE-2016-1617)

An issue was discovered w...

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security advisory denial of service critical web browser ubuntu oxide-qt

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 15.10:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.12.5-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

Ubuntu 15.04:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.12.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  liboxideqtcore0                 1.12.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2877-1

CVE-2016-1612, CVE-2016-1614, CVE-2016-1617, CVE-2016-1618,

CVE-2016-1620, CVE-2016-2051, CVE-2016-2052

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security advisory denial of service critical web browser ubuntu oxide-qt

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.12.5-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.12.5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/1.12.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

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